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The United States Navy traces its founding to the 13th of October 1775, when the Continental Congress authorized the purchase of two armed vessels to cruise against British merchantmen. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt authorized the Navy to celebrate its birthday on that date in 1972.
The United States Navy has a statutory requirement for a minimum of eleven aircraft carriers, and all eleven are currently active. As of 2024, one carrier is undergoing trials, two are under construction, and six more are planned.
The United States Navy controls 51 percent of the U.S. nuclear stockpile through its Ohio-class submarines, which are assigned 1,895 nuclear warheads. That figure also represents 19 percent of the global nuclear stockpile.
The Great White Fleet was most of the U.S. Navy's battleships, accompanied by several support vessels, ordered by President Theodore Roosevelt to showcase naval capability. They completed a 14-month circumnavigation of the world beginning in 1907.
The United States Navy was operating 6,768 ships on V-J Day in August 1945. By war's end it held over 70 percent of the world's total numbers and tonnage of naval vessels of 1,000 tons or greater.
The Naval Act of 1794, passed on the 27th of March 1794, established a permanent standing U.S. Navy and ordered the construction of six heavy frigates. It was passed in response to Barbary pirate attacks on American merchant ships that the existing Revenue-Marine could not stop.